Too often, shopping centers have been allowed to grow monstrous, and create urban dead zones at thei
Shopping is one of the most fundamental activities of daily life, and it should be accessible, convenient, safe and attractive. It must not be allowed to disrupt the pedestrian scale of the surrounding neighborhood.
Therefore:
Do not build gigantic, isolated shopping “malls”, which are becoming undesirable to shoppers. Instead build lively market centers, allowing different buildings to span over the street network.
When … Along the active edges of Sanctuary (p. 66), where the demand for market centers is significant, and transit service and mobility are highest, create integrated complexes of buildings that serve as market centers...
Then Assure that the edges of the centers have Walkable Streetscape (p. 93). Articulate these spaces, and the spaces within, with Place Network (p. 90)…
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